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1451: "The Dancing Plague of 1518"
Episode 1451
Published 4 months, 3 weeks ago
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Interesting Things with JC #1451: "The Dancing Plague of 1518" – In the summer heat of 1518, hundreds danced themselves to death in the streets of Strasbourg. Was it hysteria, hunger, or something buried deep in the brain? Science still can’t say for sure.